Rendered AVI and MS PowerPoint

Radtz wrote on 4/25/2001, 9:15 AM
Hi,

I rendered a couple of video clips that were captured in
AVI format using a Dazzle USB video capture device. After
some editing in VideoFactory, I rendered the files as AVI.
These rendered AVI files showed up as garbage (four partial
screens showed up with a loud buzz instead of audio) when I
imported the files into a PowerPoint presentation.

What was interesting, was when I imported the original un-
editied AVIs into PowerPoint, they worked fine. I checked
the formats of the AVI files as best as I could, and the
only difference appears to be that the original video
capture AVI was compressed with a different type of codec
(YU.. or something like that).

Along with this, PowerPoint is supposed to allow most any
video format in a presentation, but I could not get any
VideoFactory rendered files to work in PowerPoint accept
for the newest windows video format (WMV, WMF? -- I forget
the extension). What insteresting about that is that that
type of video wouldn't work in Windows NT.

WIN 98 (with all of the updates)
PII 450
256 SDram
30 gig 7200 rpm EIDE drive for video files
100 mhz bus speed
blah blah blah

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 4/25/2001, 9:52 AM
Windows Media 7 does not work at all in NT. Microsoft
decision.

For near-universal compatibility in almost any Windows
playback device, we advise compressing avi's with Cinepak.
The quality is not fabulous, but the Cinepak codec has been
unchanged for quite some time and therefore is supported by
nearly everything.